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And the Show Went On : Cultural Life in Nazi-Occupied Paris
by Alan Riding
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Overview
On June 14, 1940, German tanks rolled into a silent and deserted Paris. Eight days later, a humbled France accepted defeat along with foreign occupation. While the swastika now flew over Paris, the City of Light was undamaged, and soon a peculiar kind of normalcy returned as theaters, opera houses, movie theaters, and nightclubs reopened for business. Shedding light on this critical moment of twentieth-century European cultural history, And the Show Went On focuses anew on whether artists and writers have a special duty to show moral leadership in moments of national trauma.
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- ISBN-13: 9780307389053
- ISBN-10: 0307389057
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: October 2011
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.9 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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